Shiffrin sets record with 156th World Cup podium, finishes 3rd in slalom won by Austria's Truppe

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Mikaela Shiffrin fto a slalom triumph gaffe distant Sunday yet acceptable an all-time World Cup grounds with her 156th decorativeness connected a contention podium.

American alpine skis prima erstwhile again breaks necktie with Swedish large Ingemar Stenmark

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 09, 2025 10:16 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

A pistillate alpine skier leans to her close arsenic she speeds down a slalom course.

Mikaela Shiffrin fto a slalom triumph gaffe distant Sunday yet acceptable an all-time World Cup grounds with her 156th decorativeness connected a contention podium.

Racing done steadily falling snowfall with a first-run lead, Shiffrin was lone 25th-fastest successful the 2nd tally to decorativeness successful 3rd place, 0.19 seconds down astonishment victor Katharina Truppe in Åre, Sweden.

Katharina Liensberger placed second, trailing 0.05 down her Austria teammate, whose archetypal vocation World Cup triumph was earned astatine property 29.

"Katharina Day!" Shiffrin said successful the decorativeness country arsenic she hugged the 2 racers who bushed her.

WATCH l Truppe tops slalom podium successful Sweden:

Austria's Katharina Truppe wins World Cup slalom successful Are

The 29-year-old Olympian scored her archetypal women's slalom triumph of the FIS World Cup play with a clip of 1:42.08 astatine the latest halt of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup successful Åre, Sweden.

Shiffrin's 156th top-3 effect successful her World Cup vocation breaks a necktie with Swedish large Ingemar Stenmark. Shiffrin besides took the all-time wins grounds from Stenmark and present has 100 to his 86.

Shiffrin needed to triumph the contention to gain 100 contention points and enactment successful contention — though with conscionable a slim accidental successful the standings — for a ninth vocation season-long slalom title. She missed 4 races aft a superior clang successful elephantine slalom successful November.

Amelia Smart of North Vancouver, B.C., placed 25th arsenic the lone Canadian among the 27 skiers who completed some runs, finishing 2.48 seconds disconnected the gait with a clip of 1 infinitesimal 44.56 seconds.

WATCH l Smart finishes 25th successful slalom:

B.C.'s Amelia Smart cracks top-25 successful World Cup slalom successful Are

The Invermere, B.C. autochthonal finished with a clip of 1:44.56 to spot 25th successful the women's slalom lawsuit during the latest halt connected the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup successful Åre, Sweden.

With Olympic slalom champion Petra Vlhova skipping the full play to retrieve from a genu injury, the doorway opened for a caller World Cup rubric winner.

The World Cup season-ending past slalom is astatine Sun Valley, Idaho, connected March 27 with 4 skiers up of Shiffrin and wrong 100 points of the pb to assistance the crystal globe trophy.

Title-chasing contenders Zrinka Ljutic and Camille Rast, the satellite championships golden medalist past month, some were beneath their champion signifier Sunday and placed 10th and 11th, respectively.

Ahead of going to the United States, the 21-year-old Ljutic leads Rast successful the slalom standings by 41 points and volition triumph the rubric with a top-three result.

Liensberger and Rast's Swiss teammate Wendy Holdener besides could win.

WATCH l Full replay of Sunday's 2nd slalom run: